18w4d - introducing zanzibar buck buck mcfate!

last day of summer flowers

the calendar says that it's fall, but it's almost 90F out there. what gives? bring on the 70F days and evenings in the 50s! i took some photos the other day, something i hadn't done in awhile. here are some cornflowers from my neighbor's yard and little yellow snap dragons from my own.











it was interesting to watch the bees push themselves into the "mouth" of the dragon, do their little bee-siness, and move along.

thinking about halloween already!

one of my favorite holidays. maybe my very favorite!

exciting times

i don't know if anyone reads this blog ... mostly because i never write anything in it anymore! well, i'm not really announcing this to the "general public" yet, but i'm excited and have to tell someone, so i am telling my blog. and if anyone should happen to read this, i guess that's okay too! :)

9w3d:

way behind

hmmm

seems to me i haven't blogged in awhile. and i started the year off so strong! maybe i'll catch up again one of these days. i've been taking TONS of photographs and have been enjoying playing with them in photoshop and i just adore the topaz adjust plugin! i have lots and lots of new flowers popping up in my yard. i don't remember having so many in years past, but maybe it's just that i wasn't really looking. these just came up this week:



they are called star-of-bethlehem. and i am captivated by these bluebells:



thanks to the kind folks on flickr for helping me to identify all of my beautiful blossoms! perhaps i'll dedicate my next post to logging and identifying all of the flowers that i have in my own tiny little yard in pittsburgh, pa!

experimentation

something new to play around with!

ooh

i like the way this one turned out!

topaz adjust

does some pretty cool things! still trying to decide if it's worth my $50 though. here's an example of some photos edited with the plug-in:

some stuff

this:



and then this: